NixOS Helix flake grammars

[niccogc]

Hello,

My setup is Helix installed through its flake, I use home manager as a NixOS module.
I use impermanence and disko-nix, but the nix store is not wiped at every boot so it shouldn t matter

The problem:
At every boot Helix download all tree sitter grammars from github and rebuild it, taking 3 or 4 minutes.

Expected behaviour:
Helix should download the grammar once and then reuse it for next boots.

the result of hx --health

❯ hx --health
Config file: /home/nicci/.config/helix/config.toml
Language file: /home/nicci/.config/helix/languages.toml
Log file: /home/nicci/.cache/helix/helix.log
Runtime directories: /home/nicci/.config/helix/runtime;/nix/store/a7dwprkxvl95sb3ipj61ix51bymj0zw1-helix-runtime;/nix/store/r7f80a193arnar1p98j3vfg16fv0kwp7-helix-term/bin/runtime
Runtime directory does not exist: /nix/store/r7f80a193arnar1p98j3vfg16fv0kwp7-helix-term/bin/runtime

indeed the folder …-helix-term/bin has a file called hx inside and not a runtime folder but I don t know if that is causing the issue
If you need any more infos I will be hapy to provide them

Thankss

[rhogenson]

The correct runtime directory should be /nix/store/a7dwprkxvl95sb3ipj61ix51bymj0zw1-helix-runtime I think, what's in there? Here's what hx --health shows on my machine using the flake installation

Config file: /home/rose/.config/helix/config.toml
Language file: /home/rose/.config/helix/languages.toml
Log file: /home/rose/.cache/helix/helix.log
Runtime directories: /home/rose/.config/helix/runtime;/nix/store/rskbbb7kqvvmr2wmp6rlb0ia39s2bvkr-helix-runtime;/nix/store/g5z470iv9yqqzfjshmycrlwj0pv2071g-helix-term/bin/runtime
Runtime directory does not exist: /home/rose/.config/helix/runtime
Runtime directory does not exist: /nix/store/g5z470iv9yqqzfjshmycrlwj0pv2071g-helix-term/bin/runtime
System clipboard provider: termcode

Just a random guess, I wonder if home manager or impermanence are interacting badly with the local ~/.config/helix/runtime directory? You should be able to remove ~/.config/helix/runtime entirely and it should fall back to using the nix store path

[niccogc]

Hi,
Sorry for the late reply, I didn t get an email for the response.
The contenent of the directory is

/nix/store/a7dwprkxvl95sb3ipj61ix51bymj0zw1-helix-runtime🔒
❯ ll
lrwxrwxrwx - root 1 Jan 1970  grammars -> /nix/store/scfx7ja5dkfkwpg9m5g0pbck9f1d50mc-consolidated-helix-grammars
lrwxrwxrwx - root 1 Jan 1970  queries -> /nix/store/l8fkm18rb8hgzvli94q7azgcbhn2gxi0-runtime/queries
lrwxrwxrwx - root 1 Jan 1970  themes -> /nix/store/l8fkm18rb8hgzvli94q7azgcbhn2gxi0-runtime/themes
lrwxrwxrwx - root 1 Jan 1970  tutor -> /nix/store/l8fkm18rb8hgzvli94q7azgcbhn2gxi0-runtime/tutor

In the grammars folder are present the .so files as expected

I don' t find any ~/.config/helix/runtime folder 🤔

My setup is with impermanence and disko but I don t persist anything related to helix, it should be all declared only from home-manager

[niccogc]

Could you show me how you import the helix flake in your config? that might be my problem I do like this

config = mkIf config.hm.editor.helix.enable {
programs.helix = {
enable = true;
package = inputs.helix.packages.${pkgs.system}.default;
...

[rhogenson]

I use the nix profile feature, I just did nix profile install github:helix-editor/helix